ME and I where away for several weeks in the end of March, beginning of April. We returned to KSA to find everything in our villa coated with sand both inside and out. Several days before we arrived a freak…
The Maintenance Guys
We live on a very well maintained compound. I refer to it sometimes as a bird sanctuary. It is very green with nice lawns, high hedges, many types of palm trees and flowering shrubs. We have many birds living here…
The Grand Mosque of Bahrain
Several weeks after we arrived in KSA, in January of 2014, we went on our first trip to Bahrain. Bahrain is an island kingdom just over the causeway from Al Khobar where we live. Based on traffic it can take…
Expat Reflections / Anniversaries / Farewells
Expat Reflections It’s been just over a year that we’ve been living in KSA. It is hard to believe, the time has gone by so fast. (FYI, we are returning to the U.S. at the end of this year.) We…
Winter Holiday
ME and I returned to the US for several weeks in mid January. We spent two weeks in Jackson Hole, Wyoming skiing and visiting with the girls. This was the first time in over two years that we took the…
Egypt, Abu Simbel Temples
This is the last in a series of posts on Egypt. Abu Simbel temples are located on Lake Nasser near the southern border with Sudan. It is a half hour plane ride south of Aswan.The complex is part of an…
Egypt, views from the Nile River & Aswan
We spent several hours each day traveling down the Nile River. It was fascinating, slowly, peacefully, moving along, watching these wonderful scenes go by. I will let the pictures below tell the rest of store.
Egypt: a view from the bus
The water level of the Nile was low during our visit, so our agenda was changed, instead of motoring up the river to the Dendera Temple complex we where bused up. The road we used followed a canal several hundred…